St Laserians Special SC
Carlow · Roll number 19315G
- Special school
- Mild general learning disability
- Catholic ethos
- Not DEIS
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 146
- +4 on 2024/25
- Over 10 years
- −2%
- Down 3 from 149 in 2015/16
- Girls and boys
- 48 / 98
- 33% girls
The Department of Education publishes only the number of pupils, girls and boys in each special school, not pupils by class, so this page has no class or class size figures. Pupils in special schools can be aged 4 to 18. All special schools
Pupils since 1993
Total enrolment each school year
Shaded: the last 10 years, 2015/16 to 2025/26. Until 2010/11 the Department listed special schools with mainstream schools; from 2011/12 they have their own list. Pupils on 30 September each year. Known data issues
Teachers
Teaching posts and special needs assistants (SNAs) at St Laserians Special SC, 2018/19 to 2025/26.
Where these figures come from
The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) allocates each special school its teaching posts and SNAs, and these are its figures as published each year. They're posts, not people: part of a post can be a teacher shared with another school. The NCSE published no figures for special schools for 2020/21 and 2021/22. From 2026/27 it lists a principal and deputy who don't teach a class separately; earlier files don't say how they're counted. Known data issues
In 2025/26
22teaching posts
The NCSE's allocation: about 6.6 pupils per teaching post.
- Teaching postsTeachers for the school's classes, allocated by the NCSE 22
50 special needs assistants (SNAs) also work with pupils.
The NCSE has allocated 22 teaching posts, a principal and a deputy principal who don't teach a class, and 53 SNAs for next year.
Teachers since 2018/19
Teaching posts each school year. Point at a bar for its SNAs.
Dashed boxes: the NCSE published no figures for special schools for those years. Known data issues
Source: NCSE special school allocations (CC BY 4.0).
Nearby
The special schools closest to St Laserians Special SC, and the mainstream schools within 10 km that have special classes, measured in a straight line.
Nearest special schools
| Number on map | School | Distance | Pupils | Since 2015/16 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Laserians Special SCThis school | – | 146 |
−2.0%
|
|
| 1 | Saplings Carlow Special School4.7 km · Carlow · Autism | 4.7 km | 30 |
+150.0%
|
| 2 | Saplings Special School24.3 km · Goresbridge, Co. Kilkenny · Autism | 24.3 km | 12 |
0.0%
|
| 3 | Mother of Fair Love Spec School30.9 km · Kilkenny · Mild general learning disability | 30.9 km | 75 |
+44.2%
|
| 4 | The Kolbe Special School31.6 km · Portlaoise, Co. Laois · Severe or profound general learning disability | 31.6 km | 49 |
+58.1%
|
| 5 | School of the Holy Spirit Special School32.6 km · Kilkenny · Emotional and behavioural difficulties | 32.6 km | 83 |
+7.8%
|
Special classes within 10 km22 classes in 12 mainstream schools in 2025/26, from the NCSE
| Number on map | School | Distance | Classes | 2026/27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Bishop Foley Memorial School Boys SNR SCH0.3 km · An autism class | 0.3 km | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | Scoil Nais Iosef Naofa0.5 km · 2 early intervention classes and an autism class | 0.5 km | 3 | 3 |
| 8 | Holy Family National School1.1 km · 2 autism classesA new class in 2026/27 | 1.1 km | 2 | 3 |
| 9 | Carlow Educate Together NS1.3 km · 2 autism classesA new class in 2026/27 | 1.3 km | 2 | 3 |
| 10 | Gaelscoil Eoghain Uí Thuairisc1.7 km · 2 autism classes | 1.7 km | 2 | 2 |
| 11 | S N Ceatharlach2.0 km · 2 autism classes | 2.0 km | 2 | 2 |
| 12 | Scoil Chomhgain Naofa4.8 km · 2 autism classes | 4.8 km | 2 | 2 |
| 13 | Fr Cullen Memorial N S5.7 km · 2 autism classesA new class in 2026/27 | 5.7 km | 2 | 3 |
About this school
Inspection reports open on gov.ie, under the name the school had when it was inspected. Newer schools may not have one yet.
Contact
- Principal
- Rachel Dolan
- Phone
- 0599142601
- [email protected]
- Address
- Dublin Road, Carlow, R93 N704
School
- Ethos
- Catholic
- NCSE designation
- Mild general learning disability
- Patron
- Bishop of Kildare & Leighlin
- School type
- Special school
- DEIS
- Not DEIS
Language and area
- Irish classification
- No subjects through Irish
- Gaeltacht
- Non-Gaeltacht
- Island
- Not on an island
- Local authority
- Carlow County Council
- Planning area
- Carlow
Each detail is the latest one the Department of Education has recorded for this school. The designation is the need the NCSE lists the school as set up for; many special schools now take pupils with a wider range of needs. Known data issues
Data by year
33 school years from 1993/94 to 2025/26.
| Year | Total | Girls | Boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 146 | 48 | 98 |
| 2024/25 | 142 | 49 | 93 |
| 2023/24 | 137 | 46 | 91 |
| 2022/23 | 148 | 51 | 97 |
| 2021/22 | 153 | 51 | 102 |
| 2020/21 | 156 | 51 | 105 |
| 2019/20 | 155 | 51 | 104 |
| 2018/19 | 162 | 54 | 108 |
| 2017/18 | 159 | 55 | 104 |
| 2016/17 | 159 | 52 | 107 |
| 2015/16 | 149 | 54 | 95 |
| 2014/15 | 148 | 58 | 90 |
| 2013/14 | 147 | 56 | 91 |
| 2012/13 | 159 | 58 | 101 |
| 2011/12 | 151 | 58 | 93 |
| 2010/11 | 140 | 56 | 84 |
| 2009/10 | 149 | 63 | 86 |
| 2008/09 | 139 | 61 | 78 |
| 2007/08 | 142 | 69 | 73 |
| 2006/07 | 147 | 72 | 75 |
| 2005/06 | 144 | 71 | 73 |
| 2004/05 | 140 | 68 | 72 |
| 2003/04 | 147 | 64 | 83 |
| 2002/03 | 152 | 66 | 86 |
| 2001/02 | 138 | 59 | 79 |
| 2000/01 | 137 | 60 | 77 |
| 1999/00 | 144 | 55 | 89 |
| 1998/99 | 141 | 51 | 90 |
| 1997/98 | 130 | 45 | 85 |
| 1996/97 | 121 | 40 | 81 |
| 1995/96 | 118 | 40 | 78 |
| 1994/95 | 118 | 40 | 78 |
| 1993/94 | 118 | 42 | 76 |